All the fee ble gently leading, While the lambs Thy bo som share;

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In lowly home the lowliest place,
Thy childhood's law a mother's will,
Obedience meek Thy brighest grace;

2 Lead every child that bears Thy name
To walk in Thine own guileless way,
To dread the touch of sin and shame,
And humbly, like Thyself, obey.

3 Gather Thy lambs within Thine arm,
And gently in Thy bosom bear;
Keep them, O Lord, from hurt and harm,
And bid them rest for ever there.

4 So shall they, waiting here below,
Like Thee, their Lord, a little span,
In wisdom and in stature grow,
And favor with both God and man.

Wm. Walsham How, 1850, 1871

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Old English melody in Easy Hymn Tunes, 1851

O Father, in Thy Father's heart We know our children have their part;

We sign them in the three fold name, And by the sprinkled wa

enant in Christ revealed To us and to our chil-dren sealed. A men.

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FATHER, in Thy Father's heart

We know our children have their part;

We sign them in the threefold name,
And by the sprinkled water claim
Thy covenant in Christ revealed
To us and to our children sealed.

2 Name of the Father-pledge that we
Our inmost being draw from Thee;
Name of the Son-whereby we know
The Father's love to men below;
Name of the Spirit-blessed sign
That now we share the life divine!

3 Fulfil Thy covenant of love,

Baptize our children from above;

Thy best, Thy highest gift impart,
The blessing of a childlike heart,

And mould them through life's strain and stress
To the full growth of perfectness.

Ella S. Armitage, 1887

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Isaac Smith, 1770

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